Woman And Virgin

Cum autem venit plenitudo temporis, misit Deus Filium suum, factum ex muliere, factum sub lege. Sed offendit factum ex muliere, quia natum confitemur ex Virgine. Factum non confitemur nisi hominem; Deus autem semper faciens est, fieri nescit ut sit. Fieri nescit Deus; sed fit ut aliquid alicui sit, quo modo dicitur: Domine, refugium factus es nobis; et: Dominus factus est auxiliator meus. Quanta factus, qui numquam est factus? Dominus autem Christus homo factus est, ut esset, ut qui Creator semper erat, creatura esset. Manens enim Deus, factus est homo, ut fieret quod non erat, non ut periret quod erat. Hoc ergo de Virgine quod factum est, quare ex mulier? Quod apud Hebraeos, ubi est prima lingua Scripturae, mulier nomen est significandi sexus, non amissae integritatis. Lege: quando mulier formata est, Extraxit, inquit, Deus unam e costis eius, id est viri, et aedificavit eam in mulierem. Sic mulier Maria; sic ei dictum est, antequam pareret, antequam conciperet: Beata tu inter mulieres. Sanctus Augustinus Hipponensi, Sermo XLIX, Ut Homo Diligit Iustitiam et Misericordiam et Iudicium Paratusque sit Ambulare cum Domino Deo Suo, Fragmentum Source: Migne PL 38.257

'When came the fullness of time God sent His Son, made from a woman, made under the law.' 1 But there is a problem with 'made from a woman' because we confess that He was born from a virgin. We do not confess anything but He was made man. And God is always making, to become one knows not what. What God becomes is not known but He may become something to someone, as when it is said, 'Lord you have been made a refuge for me.' and 'The Lord was made my help.' 2 How much making for Him who was never made. But the Lord Christ was made man so that the one who was always Creator became a created thing. For remaining God He was made man so He might become what He was not, and that what He was might not perish. Therefore He was made from a virgin, but why does it say here 'made from a woman?' Because in Hebrew, which is the first tongue of Scripture, the name woman signifies the sex, not a loss of dignity. Read that when woman was formed, 'God drew out one of his ribs,' that is, the man's, 'and fashioned it into a woman.' 3 So Mary was a woman, and so it was said to her before she gave birth, and before she had conceived, 'Blessed are you among women.' 4 Saint Augustine of Hippo, from Sermon 49a, 'So that the man who loves righteousness and mercy and judgement and is prepared to walk with the Lord his God.' 1 Galat 4.4 2 Ps 89.1, Ps 29.11 3 Gen 2.21 4 Lk 2.24